Posted on 07/05/2014 1:44:14 PM PDT by PoloSec
At the eleven minute mark of this 15 minute interview, Kansas Senator Pat Roberts is reduced to a stumbling, bumbling pile of a 47 years in Washington incumbent who can't manage to coherently explain why he doesn't actually live in Kansas anymore.
And perhaps the worst of it is when he admits that he does click his heels together to go back to Kansas on occasion .... seemingly only when he gets an opponent. Roberts may not have distinguished himself as that much of a wizard in D.C. over the years but if a slot opens up in Oz, perhaps Dorothy will consider him as a write in after hearing this embarrassing performance.
Asked about his residency during an interview Thursday with talk radio station KCMO in Mission, Kansas, Roberts said: “Every time I get an opponent — I mean, every time I get a chance, I’m home.”
Yes, the residency portion of the interview really is that bad, leaving a broad opening to his opponent Dr. Milton Wolf, as Politico points out here.
“Pat Roberts has been in Washington for 47 years, and for him now to admit that he comes ‘home’ to Dodge City only when he gets an opponent is a slap in the face to Kansans,” he said in a statement.
... the gaffe reinforces a criticism that Roberts is too close to Washington and out of touch with his state. The New York Times reported in February that the senator is a “virtual stranger” in his home state, renting out his Dodge City property and staying with two donors when he stays in Kansas.
As per the New York Times at link above: "It is hard to find anyone who has seen Senator Pat Roberts here at the redbrick house on a
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Yeah, hearing him repeat about he's "Barack Obama's fearless conservative cousin" ad infinitum just blows me away.
Senator Roberts long has owned a home in Dodge City. It currently has a tenant; he also pays rent at a residence where he stays when he is in Dodge City. He pays Kansas state tax and property tax. There are those pesky facts.
Yes, they do, the anti-17th crowd is so deluded they believe career politicians in the state legs "oppose federal power", which is so stupid it's not even laughable. It's even more hilarious because the same people usually back weak primary challengers to any incumbent, who would have no chance under their preferred electoral system.
And never mind the entire idea of repealing the 17th is politically untenable, talk about a wedge issue, the polls would go about 90-10 against. But they won't ever shut about it.
Roberts is a solid conservative, Wolf is a random nobody with no record and no rationale for running.
Let’s recap his platform
1)Dammit Jim, I’m a DOCTOR NOT A POLITICIAN!!
2)I’m Obama’s 7th cousin twice removed, it will make him mad if I win, even though he doesn’t know who I am.
3)Um, Roberts lives in DC most of the time.
Pathetic. Pathetic that so many freepers (most of them not from Kansas) are in his corner, and why? Because his majesty Mark “do as I say” Levin endorsed him. His last little project, RINO Queen Liz Cheney elicited the same kind of response, but the good people of Wyoming laughed her right out of the race.
Crystal clear choice, there is reason to replace Roberts at all, let alone with some unknown guy running a stupid campaign.
Hey chumps, there’s a proven conservative state legislator named in Joe Carr in Tennessee who’s running against a Senator who DOES need replacing, Lamar Alexander. Maybe put your energy somewhere useful? I know I know, Levin hasn’t told you to care about that race yet, but maybe you should get a clue and care anyway.
And please don’t whine and endorse the democrat when conservative Pat Roberts kicks Wolf’s butt.
Sounds like he is a very bad steward of his own money. If he is that bad of a steward with his own money, how does he handle other peoples' money?
Did he vote for the stimulus and the bank bailouts?
Why is everyone who is against Roberts so ignorant of his voting record? If you have a problem with a guy know how he votes. What is Wolf’s record? Oh he doesn’t have one so he’s my man? By the way, Roberts voted against Stimulus.
Oh and no on Bank Bailouts.
You can ask Milton Wolf that same question after he blows all that money losing his primary campaign.
Right BillyBoy, you’ve convinced me to stick with the establishment lackey Roberts!
Fortunately I doubt most Kansas conservatives will drink the kool-aid that "Obama's cousin" is selling.
I used to pay property taxes in Florida but that did not make me eligible to run as a Floridian for the Senate. I used to rent a hotel room whenever I was there. Owning rental property does not qualify unless you reside in that property which Roberts does not. Although Roberts has a better voting record, this is Richard Lugar/Part II.
Time for a new senate nominee.The fewer years in DC, the less likely the corruption. How did Roberts vote on raising the debt ceiling on demand? For! Has Roberts aligned with McConnell or with Cruz? McConnell! I imagine he chipped in to help Thad Cockroach to pay Democrats to illegally vote in the runoff in MISSISSIPPI.
If you know your post to be true (which most of them are), then I retract my support for Roberts' opponent. OTOH why do these guys insist, at advanced ages, on running until they are carried out feet first? And why is it soooo hard to simply rent a studio apartment as a residence to cover the constitution. The man makes a lot more $$$$ than I ever did or probably most of us ever did. Yes, he needs a DC area residence as an effective condition of holding his office, but still.... It just looks bad.
I agree entirely with your position in favor of the 17th Amendment and of popular election of US Senators.
Wolfe is the guy who finds amusement in the x-ray photos of gunshot victims and posted them publicly on his facebook page, right? And after all of that coming to light, there are people here still supporting him?
I appreciate that. Too few people speak out against what would be a *very* counterproductive change.
Some people would support literally anyone if Mark Levin told them to.
Most of these people are the same rocket scientists that want Grimes to win in Kentucky.
Roberts may not be well known outside of Kansas but his record certainly reflects Kansas conservatives. For example, Roberts was one of only a handful of GOP Senators who stood with Ted Cruz and supported his 21 hour filibuster against Obamacare (interestingly enough, another Senator who stood with Cruz and votes conservative 95% of the time was Mike Enzi, who the “all incumbents are automtaically evil” crowd wanted to replace with RINO Liz Cheney). ( See: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/09/harry-reid-filibuster-government-shutdown-97263.html ) We know where Roberts stands and he is a reliable conservative 90% of the time and has a rock solid track record on issues like pro-life, pro-traditional family, gun-rights, anti-Obamacare, etc., etc.
The most damning thing about Wolf, on the other hand, is that his image as a “fearless conservative fighter” seems to be manufactured for his Senate race and simply didn't exist before he decided he wanted a Senate seat. If you talk to rank and file Kansas conservatives, they've never seen Wolf lift a finger to promote any “conservative cause” or candidate before he came out of nowhere and used his distant family relationship with Obama as an excuse to market himself for a Senate seat. One example is Milton Wolf never had any interest in guns before, but decided to buy himself a “lifelong membership” in the NRA right before he announced a Senate bid, and told a gun store he needed to buy a “big, scary gun” (his words, not mine) so he could portray himself a gun entheusistic and champion of the 2nd amendment (see: http://metrovoicenews.com/milton-wolf-sheeps-clothing/) His actual background before he reinvented himself as a “conservative fighter” is nothing to write home about, and he has plenty of disturbing baggage in his career, like the news that he used to post autopsy X-rays on facebook for laughs.
To me, there's no question which candidate makes more sense to back. You have a proven conservative who is not 100% perfect but is one of the most reliable and steadfast Ted Cruz allies in the Senate vs. some unknown creep of questionable character with no track record -- whose only “qualification” for a top political office is that he's Obama’s distant “cousin”.
Roberts will win.
Roberts will win overwhelmingly.
Wolf is a nut and a fraud, and will probably be charged with some privacy violations in October, so that the Democrats can have this Senate seat, in the unlikely event that Wolf wins the primary.
Please stop wasting time and money by promoting this complete FAKE Milton Wolf. Wolf has NO conservative record at all.
Yes I realize that you probably agree with me.
It's only crap to the GOPe and the oligarchy want to keep the gravy train running.
Troglodytes like Roberts spend 2/3 of their life in Washington DC, don't even LIVE in the states they're supposed to REPRESENT, and because they continue to do things that benefit the ruling class (and trickle-down some crumbs to the great unwashed), their electorate is expected to hand them the golden scepter, election cycle after election cycle, until they die.
That's not the representative republic that the founding fathers intended, it truly is an oligarchy. Those on FreeRepublic who object to threads and stories like this have something to gain from the Roberts GOPe machine.
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